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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (1755)	11/21/2000 2:31:16 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 3887

100% correct CB. Here's hoping the FL SC addresses this issue in their ruling.

To: Ilaine who wrote (1755)	11/21/2000 2:35:20 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

If they only manually recount ones which are have no vote for President I don't see how they can do that and, to my knowledge, no one has said they would do that. No vote is no vote. The ballots that the machine stops on, resulting in removal of those from the machine (with the machine then continuing the count until the next unreadable one stops it), are then put aside for later review/count. That doesn't mean they are planning to or can count ballots with no vote for President. I would assume they will only count those that can be determined to have placed a vote for President - regardless of who the vote is for.

To: Ilaine who wrote (1755)	11/21/2000 3:01:23 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

Third Palm Beach Observer Cries Foul Over Hand Recounts Source: NewsMax.com Published: 11/21/00 Author: Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff Posted on 11/21/2000 11:22:01 PST Yet a third election observer has gone public with claims that there's something rotten with Palm Beach County's presidential election hand recount, making it more difficult for the Florida State Supreme Court to validate the process without appearing blatantly partisan. This time it's Bob Brooks, a Republican observer from Arkansas, who gave his account Monday to WABC-NY radio host Sean Hannity. BROOKS: The people who are actually doing the counting are in there for a long period of time. Yesterday [it was] at least 14 hours. ... These ballots are very tedious to look at and a lot of human error results when you work that long under those types of conditions. HANNITY: What else are you seeing? What irregularities are you seeing? BROOKS: Today the counter that I was working with was making a lot of errors. For example, Bush votes were being stacked in the Gore pile. ... I saw her within a period of 74 minutes make six major errors. HANNITY: Does it ever work in reverse? It always seems these mistakes always go in one direction, only to help Gore. BROOKS: I did see her make one mistake on a Gore ballot but there were four mistakes made on Bush ballots. We were looking at, over a period of about three hours, we looked at 1,100 ballots and I saw six major mistakes. Well, that adds up over time. HANNITY: Isn't it true that every questionable ballot is put aside and then it is the Democratic-dominated canvassing board - in the case of Palm Beach, three Democratic members, no Republicans - that makes the final decision on the most important ballots, the questionable ballots? Am I wrong on that? BROOKS: You're absolutely correct, Sean. That is how it's handled. HANNITY: And that would be Theresa LaPore and Carol Roberts, two Democratic activists, and what's the other guy - Judge Burton? BROOKS: Yes, Charles Burton. HANNITY: Another Democrat? BROOKS: Yes .... BROOKS: The problem that we've been dealing with down here, Sean, is that the sands are shifting constantly. Each canvassing board makes a ruling, they don't like how the ballots are counted under that rule and they flip-flop and they come back and have a new rule so that more Gore votes get counted. I mean it's really been inconsistent and I would say basically just lawless. Brooks estimated that "several hundred" dimpled ballots have been set aside in Palm Beach County to be reviewed by the canvassing board. He expects them to be eventually counted as Gore votes. Last week, Palm Beach County observers James Kelly and Jennifer Garcia came forward with similar accounts. Such stories could have a direct bearing on the credibility of any Supreme Court ruling validating the hand recount process. But thus far, the mainstream press has all but ignored the eyewitness claims of the three duly appointed observers.